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A man accused of tampering with his electronic monitoring bracelet had the charges dismissed.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo said the case against Gavaska Bascome was “the first of its kind” to be brought before the courts.
The 18-year-old had denied unl...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
House Speaker Randolph Horton has paid an official visit to the Westminster Houses of Parliament, Government reported yesterday.
The briefing visit took place between April 22 and 26 at the invitation of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentar...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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Other
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Police are seeking witnesses to an incident in which a Pembroke man fell from a balcony on Front Street on Sunday morning.
Police and an ambulance were called to Front Street around 1.15am yesterday to assist a man. He was taken to King Edward VII Me...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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Bermuda’s own Operation Ceasefire will be officially launched next month — though many of the anti-gang initiative’s “building blocks” are already in place, according to Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley.
He told The Royal Gazette, in an exclusi...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
They call themselves ‘Longtails’ — because they keep flying back to the Island, year after year.
Fifty years after their Bermuda honeymoon, dedicated US visitors John and Barbara Buckley, 73 and 70 years old respectively, came back to mark the occasi...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Industrial Union has won praise from the Construction Association of Bermuda for taking the lead in preparing local workers for the rebound in the economy.
Reflecting on Thursday’s construction division meeting at the BIU, CAOB President ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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Other
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A proposal by environmentalists to legislate a fee for disposable bags has drawn mixed reviews from the public.
Greenrock and the Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce are behind a campaign to have shoppers pay 25 cents for disposable bags in an effort to ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Hundreds of the Island’s keenest young mathematicians put their skills to the test yesterday for the Mathematics Olympiad.
So many turned up that volunteers were tested in grading them in time for the prize giving.
“This is probably the most papers w...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Lawyers for fast-food franchise KFC Bermuda claim the company should not have to pay out the full legal costs of a judicial review — even though it lost its case against former Economy and Trade Minister Patrice Minors and the Bermuda Industrial Unio...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Work on the Heritage Wharf modification project is progressing well despite some weather related setbacks, reported Public Works Minister Trevor Moniz.
Mr Moniz also reassured the public that Government would not engage in a cover-up about workforce...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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